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kt Iktm mhmni will b* ktmd $ fok prtun t atom V M ommty mm Volume XL —Number 36. WOKI.D WAR MEMORIAL BLASTED —Enemy shell* that wrecked this church at Saints nay, France, did not spare the town’* monument to it* heroes of 1914-18. Leathernecks Even Count On Sunday In Championship Race Easily Defeat Harvey Point 8-1 On Hicks Field Kdentpri’s Marines again came back with a punch Sunday afternoon to easily defeat the Harvey Point Air Station on Hicks Field and thus even the count for the championship of the Albemarle Service League. The Marines dropped the first game of the three-came series Wednesday afternoon of last week 3-1 on the Harvey Point diamond. Sunday af ternoon, however, the Marines went ini a rampage to win 8-1. In the first game, lloyle, Harvey I'oint twirier. proved a puzzle to the Marine batters, allowing only three hits, while the Harvey Point boys touched up Milakovvski for 10 safe hits. Harvey Point scored a run in each the first, third and eighth in ning, while the Marines were held scoreless until the ninth inning, when they, managed to shove their only run across as the result of two errors. . Sunday afternoon's game, played on Hicks Field before a large crowd, was a nip and tuck affair, neither team being able to score until the fifth, when Harvey Point scored its only run of the game. According to the. brand of hall played by the visitors and the stinginess of Todd, Harvc* Point pitcher, with hits, the one run lead appeared mighty big. I p until that time the Marines had o.iiy i.ii: s..fc biiVgie. However, in the sixth two hits, coupled with two errors, netted four runs, and in the next inning two hits, one a three bagger by one of the Fasick twins, resulted in four more runs scored, which put the game on ice. Stevenson xvas again the Marine moundsman and turned in another splendid performance. He allowed seven hits, only two coming in one inning, the third, though he pulled out of a hole with the bases loaded. 1 Todd also allowed seven hits. Kasin was on the receiving end for Stevenson, while Ski was catcher for the Visitors. , The final game of the series was scheduled to be played Wednesday of tLis week and, weather permitting, 1 was in progress while The Herald was being printed. By a flip of a coin after Sunday's game, the game was scheduled to be played on the Edenton diamond. Game Warden Closes Mill Ponds For Fishing 1 Due to dry weather and subse quent dwindling of water in mill ponds, Game Warden J. G. Perry on Wednesday posted signs at both Ben nett's and Dillard's mill ponds, pro hibiting fishing in these ponds. The ban will remain in effect until the water supply is replenished, said, Game Warden Perry. September Term Os Court Begins Monday Beginning Monday morning the: September term of Chowan County Superior Court will convene with Judge Q. K. Nimmoek of Fayette ville presiding This will be a mixed term and in cludes three grand jury cases, six. nppeads from Recorder’s Court and j four civil cases. THE CHOWAN HERALD, A HOME MEWEPAPEE DEVOTED TO TWE WTHHI M! EEOWAM COD ATT * r *“ Alvin Parks Dies In Airplane Crash While In Training Body Brought From Mi chigan Tuesday For Burial Stark tragedy entered the home of Mrs. Lillie B. Parks Saturday, when she received a telegram informing her that one of her sons. Aviation Cadet Alvin Parks, hud been killed in a plane crash near Grosse He, Michigan, where he was stationed. The '.youtig man was riding in a single seat training plane at the time of-Jiie crash. Young Parks was ly years old and had a desire to fly, so on August 11>lie enlisted as a Naval, aviator under the Y-o program while a stu dent at the I 'diversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Me Was sunt to Williamstoti, Mass., for his flight preparatory training, later being transferred to Keene. X. H., and then to Chapel Hill for three months pre-flight training. At the completion of this training, he was transferred to Grosse lie, where he lacked only one more week of train ing before being transferred to Cor pus Christi, Texas, where lie would have subsequently secured his -.Wings; The young man was a member of the graduating class of IP4I at Edenton High School and was vale dictorian of his class. He was also named as first alternate for an ap pointment a t A n nappes byi Congress man Herbert Homier. While in reboot, he was an outstanding, all-1 round student and though not very heavy, was selected as a barkfield player on the football squad during j his senior year. The body arrived in Edenton Tues- j day afternoon, escorted by Aviation ' (Continued on Page Five) i Air Station Show Is Rounding Into Shape Expected to Be Present i ed Latter Part of • Month “A Blight Touch of Genius,” has ' been chosen as the talent of a variety i show to he staged by the Marine Corus Air Station, which premises to be one of the best shows presented 1 in Edenton in years. The show will! include talent at the local station, which is now practicing and being whipped into shape. The exact date of the show, which will be presented i'l the Edenton High School audi torium. has not been definitely de cided, but it will no doubt be the latter part of this month. ; Costumes and scenery have been; secured for the show, which were secured in New York. Included in some of the features of the show will be specialty arts, vocal solos | modernistic dancing, male quartet . jitterbug number, roller skaters, ec- 1 centric dancing, Mexican dance and' i other surprise numbers. The show, after being presented in ; Edenton, is expected to be taken to ' nearby bases for one night showings I The title of the show W&s decided j j in a contest, at the base, Private Rutb | Mandell’s title being accepted. Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, September 7, 1944. Contract Awarded j I For Sidewalk On j I West Eden Street! | C. R. Mooney & Son Bids •15780 To Complete Project 1 Meeting in special session Thufs-j day afternoon of last week, Town Council awarded a contract to C. B. 1 ■Mooney & Son to construct a con-, crete sidewalk on the north side of Lest Eden Street from the rear of the Citizens Bank Building to Gran ville Street. Two bids were submitted for this work, bile; from Mr. Mooney and the other from <leorge Norris. Mr. Moone-v's bid was 878)1, while Mr, Norris' bid was 8798.3( v - This fig ure allows for clearing the site, which includes some 20 trees as well as raising eight driveways to conform; with the sidewalk. This price, how ever, does not include engineering, charges of Li. J. 1 terry man. which will be added to the cost arid charged ; in proportion to the frontage of each piece of property. The!work will be started just as ' . soon as Town Attorney W. D. I'ru der prepares the necessary legal, re-.-.' (juirements. i i CAPTAIN FRANK L WILLIAMS LEADER OF TANK GROUP SAVED FROM NAZI SNIPERS Edenton Roy’s Company Storms German Strong hold, Killing More Than 60 Enemies and j Taking 30 Snipers as Prisoners j, -7 ; Another Kdenton boy. Captain j Frank 1,. Williams, son of Mrs., George C. Wood, has distinguished; himself in the fighting in France,! having led a tank group which was saved front ambush by Navi snipers. | The following story of Captain Williams’ experience was sent from the Seventh Army in Southern France: Emile, who served in the Maginot line as a reserve lieutenant, hadn’t shot a German in more than four years and was sligjitly out of prac tice when he and his 17-year-old son | led ten other partisans yesterday in a charge that wiped out a German anti-tank gun crew, thus saving an American force from marching into ambush. The Americans, commanded by Maj. Clayton C. Thobro, Rock Springs, Wyo., were nearing Emile’s home town east of Toulon. There had been almost no opposition, but as they entered the tow'n they encoun tered still-smoldering wreckage and a blown-up railway overpass and knew the German rearguards were not far ahead. Two hundred yards down the hill, cleverly concealed on a wooded spur to the left of the road, lay about 80 Germans. They had a machine gun and two 37mm anti-tank guns. The American tank leading a com pany of infantry under Captain Frank L. Williams, Edenton, N. C., j plunged through the debris of the I overpass and was poking around the bend in the road in point blank Sgt Milton Bunch ! Sends Telegram To Wife From France Edenton Boy Was Re ported Missing Early t In July i Reason lor great joy on the part I of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Hunch, par : elds of Sergeant Milton liuneh, ami Mrs. Kvelyn Hunch, his wife, was re ceipt of a telegram Friday signed hy him. The telegram was sent from San Saigine. Frame, byway of West ern Union Cattles and was dated August Hi. The telegram read: “Dear Kvelyn, I am safe. Don’t worry.” Relatives, early in July, were no tified by the War Department that ergeant Bunch, a waist gunner on a 1 B-17 Flying Fortress, was missing! j in action in France, However, since | that time the boy’s wife has had j letters from one of Ids. buddies, which ! ,-hile not specific, jed her, as well as | his parents, to believe tnat he was | alive, so that Friday's telegram ful- filled their hopes. Sergeant Bunch landed in Eng land March 29 of this year and, ac cording to a diary included in per sonal belongings sent home by a buddy, he made his first mission flight on April 24, and in the diary . was recorded 13 missions over enemy territory. It is supposed that his plane was I shot down and that he baled out, [ landing on French soW and being shielded by the French underground forces until the area was liberated from the Germans. Two Chowan Brothers Meet In Great Britain 1 Two Chowan boys, Private Harlan Forrest Mizelle ami Corporal Rudolph Mi,sel!e, sons of Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Mizelle, Route I, recently met in England, the first time they have seen each other in two and a half years. Private Mizelle is a member of the field artillery, while Corporal .Mizelle is a ipember of a bomber squadron in the Air Corps. Methodist Service On Sunday Night . Services wiII be held in tin- Met ho (list Church Sunday night at 8 o’clock, when the pastor, the Rev. IL Free Surratt, will preach on the subject “Living Consistently;" Church School for adults will be held Sunday morning at .9:45, and school officials are looking forward to resumption of, the entire school when the ban is lifted on. young peo ple's gatherings on September 18. j range of the hidden guns when , young Mauret raced up on a bicycle: i and halted the column. He tried to tell Lt. George 1.. Stripp, Newark, N. J., about the am- \ bush. Stripp doesn’t know a word j of French, but waved his platoon j into cover until Captain Williams came up with an interpreter, Pvt.! Roland Riendeau, North Attleboro, Massachusetts. “The captain decided to send my platoon around through the brusn ! and envelop the German strongpoint ! from the right,” Stripp said. “The Frenchmen told us not to fire on the adjacent hill—it was full of partisans. “Sure enough, as we approached, : ten Frenchmen popped up. One boy i with a bright yellow shirt and blue 1 pants took me up on a bald knob I overlooking the strong point, but the Germans spotted us and for ten . ! minutes we had to keep our heads ! and tails down until young Mauret I found a ditch and we crawled back. , j “He led us around through a gul- [ i ley that brought us right behind the | German positions. “You never saw a more eager 1 j bunch of fighters. In a few minutes they had killed enough Germans so that all partisans had tommy guns and lugers. Then they rushed the nearest gun and shot up the whole crew. They didn’t have a casualty.” Then the rest of Williams’ com i pany stormed the strongpoint front , ally. They lost the lead tank be ■ fore the second German gun was sil s i enced, but killed more than 60 Ger : mans and took. 30 prisoners. 1 Barney ‘Graduates] Aside from the absence of sev | eral old teachers at the Edenton school when school opens on Sep tember 18, another familiar per son who will be missed will be Winston (Barney) Bonner, the janitor. ‘‘Barney” has been janitor at tlie school for Hie past 17 years and has been very popular among group after group of i youngsters as they entered and left the Edenton school during these years. He has resigned the school janitorslbp to become janitor a! the podloffice, a place recently made vacant hi the death of Margaret Jackson. Demonstration Os Weapons Feature Os Lions Meeting Dr. J. A. Mitchener Is Elected to Honorary i Membership Featuring the Lions Club meeting Monday night was a demonstration of various weapons used in training in the U. S. Marine Corps, the pro gram being in charge of Captain Melvin Griffin, taking part in the demonstration were Lieut. John Harney, Lieut. Donald Musson and Warrant Officer L. W. Reed. In the demonstration were the Spade Grip Sportsman’s shotgun, the .45 calibre pistol, the I Springfield -03 Rifle .30 calibre, the 30-calbre carbine, the Raising .45 calibre sub-machine gun, ,30 calibre •M-l rifle, 3.30 calibre machine gun and .50 calibre machine gun. John Mitchener presided over the meeting due to the absence of I'resi dent W. K, Malone During the meeting Dr. J. A. Mitchener was elected to honorary membership in the club, the first to be so honored by the Kdenton Lions, Thomas E. Jackson Gets Purple Heart C howan County Roy In Hospital Recovering From Wounds l’fc. Thomas E. Jackson, son of Mrs. Gertrude Jackson of Ryland has been awarded the I’urple Heart for wounds received as the result of enemy action on August 5, 1944. in the European Theatre of Operation. Overseas since June of this year, I’fc. Jackson was serving with: the infantry at the time, he was wound ed. lie entered the Army on Decem ber la. 1943, and received liis baste training at Camp Croft, 8. going from there to Fort Meade, Md, He h'tt Fort Meade on D-Day and was, stationed on the east coast three weeks before being sent overseas. He, landed in England and three weeks later crossed over to France, where, according to a telegram re ceived by his mother from the War Department, he was wounded in ac tion on August 5. Last reports are that he is getting on nicely and according to a letter he wrote home, “it is better to be'in a hospital than in a foxhole.” Taylor Calls Meeting To Plan For United War Fund Campaign W. J. Taylor, Chowan County chairman for the forthcoming United War F’und drive, has called a meet ing to be held in the Court House this (Thursday) afternoon at 5 o’clock. The purpose of the meeting is to dis cuss plans for Chowan County’s drive. Therefore, it is very important that a large numlier who are interested should be on hand. Chaplain Wheeler To Preach Sunday At Presbyterian Church Due to the Rev. D. C. Crawford, j Jr„ being out of town attending a' meeting of the Synod of North Car-, olina at Barium Springs, Chaplain George Wheeler will preach next Sunday morning at 11 o’clock in the Presbyterian Church on East Queen (Street. Chaplain Wheeler’s subject will be “Fishers of Men,” and the public is cordially invited. A feature of the service will be a solo by Miss Julia Burton, who will sing the Lord’s Prayer by Malotte I This nntMfaOm it drat- I lotod kt * ■ , rritEvy Per Year I Supt. Holmes Has Practically Filled Teacher Vacancies Seven New Teachers; Tex Lindsey Fooiball Coach The. teaching .personnel for the Kde.itoii l ity - Administrative Unit has been completed with the exception of a band director and a teacher of public -clniol music. Seven new teachers have been em ployed f,r i. .• \> iiit<- School and three new tea ei s for." the. Colo red: Schools, Thi. . new teachers are re placements for teachers who resigned and are not additional to the faculty. Miss Emily Howard; of Edenton will replace Miss Emma Blanche Warrer us a second grade teach r. Miss Howard was graduated Iron) the Mary Washington College and has taught one year in the State of Virginia. Mrs. Edmund Schwarze will teach one section of tile sth grade. Mrs. Sen warze conies highly recommend i;d as a former teacher in the Greensboro Schools. Miss Katherine Deans, of Wilson, Will also teach one section of the sth grade. Miss Deans was graduated from Atlantic Christian College in of this year. She did practice teaching in the Wilson City Schools 1 and is highly recommended by the College and her practice supervisors. Mrs, Mary Brill will teach mathe matics in the High School. Mrs Brill taught mathematics in the Ma con, Ga., High School for Boys for seven consecutive years. Mrs: Brill is not a stranger to our school, since she has substituted for the past two years. This, however, will be the first time that she has taught in her regular field of mathematics. Mrs. Marjorie Wood Furgiuele of Edenton will teach commercial sub jects. Mrs. Furgiuele was graduated from Mary Washington College and was issued a teaching- certificate in English, Social Science and Commer cial Education. She stood top in her class and comes highly reci'mi meipie.it by the college authorities. Mrs. Furgiuele has been with T. V. A. as a personnel manager since her grad uation. Mrs. James Slater will teach Sci ence in the High School. Mrs. Slater was graduated from the University of Illinois and has taught a year iii the State of Illinois. Mrs. Slater is the wife of Lieut. James Slater, who is in charge of the Malaria Control Unit at the Marine Corps Air Station, Tex Lindsey of Nacogdoches, Te x as, has been employed to teach High School History and Physical Educa tion, Mr. Lindsey will also coach football, baseball and basketball. He played football, basketball and base ball in the Nacogdoches, Texas, High School for four years. He has had one season of football under Homer Norton, famous football coach of Texas A and M. Mr, Lindsey was graduated from the Eastern Carolina Teachers College, where he played football, basketball and baseball for three years. He has had oiie year of coaching a Freshman team at E. C. T. C., and two years successful ex (Continued on Page Five) Ed Habit KWed Fighting In France Parents Notified Mon day In Telegram From War Department Relatives and friends were shocked beyond measure Monday afternoon when Mr. and Mrs. Ed Habit received a telegram from the War Depart ment stating that their son, Ed Habit, Jr., had been killed in France on August 20. Young Habit, 20 years old, was a member of the infantry, entering the service on September It), 1943. His first training was received at Camp Van Dorn, in Mississippi, and he was later sent to Camp Dix, New Jersey, from where he was sent overseas. Before entering the service, he was ; employed in war work in Newport ! News, Va., and later worked at the , local Marine Corps Air Base. While he attended Edenton High (School he was a power in the line of the foot- I hall team and added great strength ■ to the team. The young man is survived by his i parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Habit; five sisters, Mrs. James Cannon of Ra 1, leigh, Mrs. A1 Maroon of New York City, Mrs. Claude Griffin, Miss i , Freida Habit and Miss Julia Habit I I of Edenton, and two brothers, George and Al, at home.
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